Month: September 2017

An invitation to “strap in for a whistle-stop tour into the inner cosmos”

September 3, 2017

In The Brain, David Eagleman explains that “the inner cosmos” is an infinitely dense tangle of billons of brain cells and their trillions of connections. “I hope you’ll be able “to squint and make out something that you might not have…

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Schedule Regular Check-ins with Your Direct Reports

September 3, 2017

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Even if you think annual performance reviews should be abolished,…

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Do It, Mean It, Be It: A book review by Bob Morris

September 2, 2017

Do It, Mean It, Be It: The Keys to Achieve Success, Happiness and Everything You Deserve at Work and in Life Corrie Shanahan Career Press (2017) “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead I…

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Hidden sources of better supply chain performance

September 2, 2017

High-level benchmarks often obscure paths to operations improvements. New data and metrics that tap underlying performance dynamics offer better visibility. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Per- Per-Magnus Karlsson, Shruti Lal, and Daniel Rexhausen for the…

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5 Surprising Facts About the Battle of Dunkirk

September 1, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article by Erik Sass for the Mental Floss Studios website. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images * * * [amazon_link asins=’0062792148,B07444VZ63,0571336256′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’bobmorris1-20′ marketplace=’US’…

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Michel Feaster (the chief executive of Usermind) in “The Corner Office”

September 1, 2017

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Michel Feaster, the chief executive…

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